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Amazon.com Inc.

  • News

    May 26, 2010

    Privacy's Bedfellows

    The ACLU hooks up with Amazon in a tussle with North Carolina.

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Amazon Is Basically the Online Wal-Mart Now

    The offline Amazon.​Last September, The New York Times asked "Can Amazon Be the Wal-Mart of the Web?" Now they've answered their own question: yes, yes it can. Amazon, it writes, has reached its "long-expected inversion point." Which sounds like something you'd encounter when trying to produc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    How to Buy Pot on Amazon.com (With Credit Card and a Big Caveat Emptor)

    Also comes in peach, mint and blonde​Consumer alert: Back in January, Daily Weekly observed that it was probably an exaggeration for other publications to call a California medical marijuana seller the "Amazon.com of Pot." The "Craigslist of Weed" seemed more accurate, based on the seller's ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Amazon Tells Customer Missing Part Was Eaten By Alligator

    "Yeah, about that fish you ordered..."​Schoolkids have "the dog ate my homework." But what absurd excuse can companies fall back on when they fail to deliver? How about, "Your package has been eaten by an alligator"? A Consumerist reader named Will says that's the reply he got from Amazon whe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Kindle Users "Revolt" Against Amazon's Most Popular Book

    Amazon's customer service department deals with some particularly unruly book worms.​"Game Change," a deliciously juicy deep-background gossip fest about the 2008 election, is currently Amazon's number-one bestseller. But if you judged it strictly by its customer review (a paltry two out of fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Amazon Delivers Death Blow to Independent Book Stores, Offers Publishers More Loot

    Apple's tablet is putting the squeeze on Amazon's Kindle, and a head lock on independent book stores.​Here's a wholly unoriginal thought: book stores, especially independents, are screwed. Yes, this is same Chicken Little wail that's been recycled ever since Amazon introduced it's first itera ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    The "Amazon.com of Pot"? More Like the "Craigslist of Weed"

    John Lee of PlainView has built a great way for medical marijuana vendors to find customers. Just don't call it Amazon.​PlainView Systems is a California-based company that describes itself as a "business-to-business exchange for licensed providers of compassionate care medical marijuana produ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2010

    Is the Rumored Apple iSlate Aimed at Amazon's Kindle?

    Will Bezos be laughing when the iSlate arrives?​With the holiday shopping season but a memory, with Amazon likely to report impressive year-end sales, how are retailers, consumers, and electronics manufacturers going to keep busy during the January doldrums? Rumor-mongering, that's how. Appl ... More >>

  • News

    December 30, 2009

    Amazon's Supply Chain

    When you’ve got the monopoly, you set the records.

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Why the Amazon Kindle's Christmas Day Record Isn't That Impressive

    This is what Christmas morning looked like for millions of new Kindle owners.​Tech writers stuck with the unenviable job of working this past holiday weekend were blessed with a last-minute gift from Jeff Bezos: On December 26th, Amazon issued a press release proudly trumpeting the fact that o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Amazon to Open British Brick-and-Mortar Stores?

    Buy the Kindle AND interact with another human being.​If you're world leader in e-commerce, why might you make a go of it in the physical world? That's the question being posed now that Amazon is reportedly scouting out shop locations in Britain. The Times of London says that "Amazon wants to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    Amazon Declares Sales Dominance for Product No One Else Can Sell

    "We're number one! We're number one! And there is no number two!"​You've got to love the Amazon PR department. The company is crowing about its sales of the Kindle electronic reader (also prominently flagged as one of the company's designated bestsellers). Meanwhile, following the sales push o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    What Amazon's Bestselling Items Say About America

    She's popular, sure. But not as popular as flat-screen TV sets.​It's Black Friday, and the malls are full of shoppers. Meanwhile, online, to close off an already strong year for Seattle-based Amazon.com, the Internet retailer announced on Monday a special Black Friday Deals Page. The company s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Blind Can't Use Amazon's Kindle, Schools Say

    The future of reading should probably include blind people too.​According to the National Federation of the Blind, Syracuse and the University of Wisconsin are expected to announce today that they won't hand out Amazon's Kindle to students until the e-reader is more accessible to the visually ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Amazon Determined to Make Your Credit Card Debt That Much Larger

    ​Not content with its awesome third quarter financial results, not resting while indie bookstores succumb to its might, Amazon.com has now announced a means to make impulse shopping from your PC that much easier! And just in time for the holidays. The venture, called "PayPhrase" is described ... More >>

  • News

    October 28, 2009

    Hard Times at Elliott Bay Bookstore

    Unlike thriving Amazon, Seattle's favorite wood-floored temple of books faces some possibly unsurmountable challenges.

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Amazon 3Q Results: More Spaceships for Jeff Bezos!

    ​The rich get richer, and fast, following today's announcement of Amazon's third quarter financial results. In our current suck-tastic economy, value retailers like Wal-Mart and Costco are thriving, while high-enders like Nordstrom (see Mark D. Fefer on that subject) are suffering. Amazon is s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Meet Kindle's Evil Twin!

    ​It is on, Jeff Bezos! Smaller corporate rival to Amazon, Barnes & Noble is announcing today a rival electronic reader device to the successful Kindle. The Nook, as it's called, will compete with Kindle at the same price point, $259 (per the NYT). Amazon has been coy about breaking out its sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Domo Arigato, Mr. Bezos: Amazon Head Donates to Robot Research Company

    ​Amazon.com warehousers, fear for ye jobs. In a move that evokes man vs. machine stories as varied as John Henry and Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?, web industrialist/Amazonian king Jeff Bezos is throwing money into robot research. Amazon's venture capital arm, Bezos Exped ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Everyone Wants to Take a Shot at King Kindle

    It feels lighter without the Orwell.​They say it's lonely at the top. They say heavy is the head that wears the crown--or the hat that wears the crown, in Bikini Cory's case. They say welcome to the jungle. Amazon's Kindle must know what they mean. The top-selling e-reader got Amazon sued by ... More >>

  • News

    August 5, 2009

    A Kindle Ate His Homework

    Now he’s telling it to a judge.

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Lawsuit Filed Over Amazon's Big Brother Act

    ​A high school student today filed suit here against Amazon.com for pulling George Orwell books off its Kindle electronic reader - destroying the homework he'd already completed. Serious. Amazon deleted "1984" and "Animal Farm," saying it mistakenly sold them on Kindle without permission. CEO ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Amazon Vs. Barnes & Noble: The Tale of the Tape

    So Barnes & Noble, the world's largest retail bookstore chain, is entering the the ebook market in a big way. As the company announced today, it's promising "more than 700,000 titles, including hundreds of new releases and bestsellers at only $9.99, making it the world's largest selection of eBooks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Amazon Invests in Literacy

    Nice to see some of Amazon's strong recent financial performance benefit the local community. Especially when the cause, reading, is what built Jeff Bezos' company out of his garage. Richard Hugo House today announced a $35,000 grant from Amazon, which becomes its presenting sponsor for its fall 200 ... More >>

  • Food

    July 8, 2009

    Amazon's Grab at the Wine Business

    The online retailer could buy wine in a quantity that would bring new meaning to the word “bulk.”

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Those UrbanSpoon Guys as iPhone Paradigm

    As our Maggie Savarino has reported, Seattle tech startup UrbanSpoon scored such a hit with its iPhone app that it sold last month to IAC/InterActiveCorp. That company is madly acquiring other small app makers who score on the ubiquitous handheld platform. In a New York Times story, UrbanSpoon is re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    Bezos Unleashes Kindle DX!

    The New York Times likes to call the Amazon founder and CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos in this report covering the new iteration of his Kindle version 2.0, the DX. Why not just the simple, casual Jeff we use here in the Northwest? Perhaps because the Times and a select few other papers have entered into an ag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    Amazon Gets More Into Gadgets

    The New York Times reports that Amazon has bought the maker of Stanza, an e-book reader application for the iPhone. Judging from its last quarterly financial results, Amazon is doing quite nicely despite the current sucky economy. One small but highly visible contributor to its bottom line is the Ki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    An 'Almost' Way to Save Papers

    Print may be fading, but it's readable in new forms including hand-held electronic newspapers - the newest being the portable e-reader Kindle 2. It will become "the best purpose-built reading device...for books, magazines and newspapers," claims its producer, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Well, the revie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Bezos Has Fourth Quarter Last Laugh

    In your faces, Boeing, Starbucks, and Microsoft! After all the wretched fourth-quarter reports from those local titans (and the layoffs), Amazon.com just announced its ass-kicking results. From AP and Yahoo!: 4Q profit up 9 percent to $225 million4Q revenue up 18 percent to $6.7 billionToday's share ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Amazon Drops New Kindle Hint Before Earnings Report

    Amazon.com will report its fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday. Before that, however, perhaps hoping to goose analysts and potential customers, the company is pimping its Kindle Version 2.0. According to this NYT blog account, Jeff Bezos himself will attend the February 8 unveiling of the refreshed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Steve Martin: Actor. Writer. Comedian. Banjo Player?

    Yeah. You heard me. I don't know how I did not know this, but Steve Martin is making an album. Because apparently, he plays the banjo, and has since he was 17. If you did not know this, either, don't feel bad.  I mean, what DOESN'T this guy do?  I wonder if it'll be any good.  Both Vi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    What Seattle's Listening To: The Color Purple, Live, The Clash

    I made another swing through the holds section at the library downtown yesterday. I'm more impressed with the collection and diversity of local interest every time. And to think I'd almost forgotten about Live!Anyhow, among the records I saw on hold yesterday:The Distance to Here, LiveTen New Songs, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2008

    Amazon Up, M'soft Executive Out

    I made another swing through the holds section at the library downtown yesterday. I'm more impressed with the collection and diversity of local interest every time. And to think I'd almost forgotten about Live!Anyhow, among the records I saw on hold yesterday:The Distance to Here, LiveTen New Songs, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2008

    Amazon Crash

    I made another swing through the holds section at the library downtown yesterday. I'm more impressed with the collection and diversity of local interest every time. And to think I'd almost forgotten about Live!Anyhow, among the records I saw on hold yesterday:The Distance to Here, LiveTen New Songs, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2008

    Amazon Crash, Part Deux

    I made another swing through the holds section at the library downtown yesterday. I'm more impressed with the collection and diversity of local interest every time. And to think I'd almost forgotten about Live!Anyhow, among the records I saw on hold yesterday:The Distance to Here, LiveTen New Songs, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2008

    Jeff Bezos Steals Another Journalist's Soul!

    I made another swing through the holds section at the library downtown yesterday. I'm more impressed with the collection and diversity of local interest every time. And to think I'd almost forgotten about Live!Anyhow, among the records I saw on hold yesterday:The Distance to Here, LiveTen New Songs, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2008

    Amazon, Apple Invade Hollywood (Part II)

    I made another swing through the holds section at the library downtown yesterday. I'm more impressed with the collection and diversity of local interest every time. And to think I'd almost forgotten about Live!Anyhow, among the records I saw on hold yesterday:The Distance to Here, LiveTen New Songs, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2007

    My BEA Diaries

    I made another swing through the holds section at the library downtown yesterday. I'm more impressed with the collection and diversity of local interest every time. And to think I'd almost forgotten about Live!Anyhow, among the records I saw on hold yesterday:The Distance to Here, LiveTen New Songs, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2007

    My BEA Diaries

    I made another swing through the holds section at the library downtown yesterday. I'm more impressed with the collection and diversity of local interest every time. And to think I'd almost forgotten about Live!Anyhow, among the records I saw on hold yesterday:The Distance to Here, LiveTen New Songs, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2007

    Beacon Hill 90210

    I made another swing through the holds section at the library downtown yesterday. I'm more impressed with the collection and diversity of local interest every time. And to think I'd almost forgotten about Live!Anyhow, among the records I saw on hold yesterday:The Distance to Here, LiveTen New Songs, ... More >>

  • Arts

    March 15, 2006

    Sad Song

    Another major opera talent sings "so long" to the University of Washington. Plus: Western Bridge, Amazon news.

  • Arts

    September 14, 2005

    Profile: MacKenzie Bezos

    Author of The Testing of Luther Albright.

  • Arts

    June 23, 2004

    This Week's Reads

    James Marcus, Craig Seligman, and Chuck Palahniuk.

  • News

    March 19, 2003

    My Pipe-Dream House

    A former millionaire surveys what once might have been hisand might be again.

  • News

    December 18, 2002

    Spamazon.com

    Online consumer beware: 'Trusted' retail partners don't honor Amazon's privacy policy—or your marketing preferences.

  • Diversions

    September 11, 2002

    Unclean Sweep

    Online consumer beware: 'Trusted' retail partners don't honor Amazon's privacy policy—or your marketing preferences.

  • News

    February 6, 2002

    Needle Exchange

    "News about Seattle from far and wide."

  • News

    January 23, 2002

    News Clips— Needle Exchange

    "News about Seattle from far and wide."

  • Arts

    June 6, 2001

    World Wide Word

    Web publishing continues to transform frustrated writers into e-authors.

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